Denis Compton

We look back to the summer of 1946 and the return of the County Championship after a seven-year absence

Haseeb Hameed's impressive Test debut has fired England's optimism that this time they have found an opener to be reckoned with

Talent spotter, brand manager, publicist, PA, troubleshooter, friend, guide - it's all in a day's work for the player agent

The 1954-55 England Ashes players get their party hats on for a festive dinner in between some exhilarating victories

The summer of 1947 was the zenith for the County Championship, and of Denis Compton and Bill Edrich

The antithesis of the dour English batting stereotype, Compton wowed fans and peers with his ability to play all the shots in the textbook and several outside of it

Famous incidents when batsmen were hit by bouncers

Tense and afraid failure will cost him his England place, Nick Compton must rediscover his inner-Denis

The Typhoon remembers being at his fastest, chopping willow trees to get strong, and the mateship of the 1954-55 English side

As Nick Compton closes in on becoming only the ninth batsman to score 1000 runs before the end of May, we look back to when two did it within four days of each other

Somerset's Nick Compton is an an old-school scrapper whose timeless virtues are paying dividends

Touring the Caribbean is a far from easy affair for cricketers, but Fred Titmus returned home more mangled than most

How the other 24 beat Mark Ramprakash to the landmark

England's top six could do worse than get their heads down and churn out the hard yards rather than dream of IPL cash

Which players from the past would have done well at Twenty20? We put our thinking caps on.

Brian Lara's final innings ended in anticlimax, but he is not alone in not bowing out in fairytale fashion. Here are 11 other players who have departed with a whimper rather than a bang

Cricinfo takes a look back at other batsmen who have made bowling attacks shudder as they enjoyed memorable years

John Arlott floats his mind back to the exquisite (for England) Australian tour of 1954-55

Simon Lister reviews Denis Compton by Tim Heald